Liz Sargent grew up in a Chicago suburb with her adoptive parents who had four biological children, and seven adopted children. The youngest of the blended brood of eleven is Anna, who is the central ...

Willa has acquired U.S. distribution rights to "Take Me Home," the debut feature from writer-director Liz Sargent. "Take Me Home" premiered in the U.S. Dramatic Competition at the Sundance Film ...

The director embraced her sister Anna’s cognitive challenges, wrote from her point of view and cast her as the lead in her narrative short film. By Liz Sargent When I set out to make my short film ...

Expanding upon her award-winning short film, writer-director Liz Sargent again casts her sister Anna Sargent in the story of a cognitively disabled woman facing tough realities about her aging parents ...

“Take Me Home” is a sensitive drama that marks a notably personal feature debut for director Liz Sargent. As a lengthier adaptation of her lovely 2023 short film, however, it’s missing an expanded ...

Sundance: Liz Sargent's debut film is an admirably lived-in drama about a family in distress that retreats into fantasy rather than seeing through its complications. In one of the first scenes of ...

Exclusive: The world's largest film production prize of $1 million goes to Liz Sargent. The logline for the feature adaptation reads: “Anna, a 38-year-old Korean adoptee with a cognitive disability, ...

EXCLUSIVE: Liz Sargent’s drama Take Me Home, which won the U.S. Dramatic Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award, at Sundance is screening is also an acquisitions title at the Berlinale. The pic is being sold ...